U.S. Family Infected With Airborne Fungal Disease After Touring Bat-Filled Caves

A family holiday in Costa Rica, 12 of the 13 relatives from the bat caves, a fungus developed symptoms of a lung infection after an excursion.

In two of the season The lastCordyceps fungi-spoiler becomes an alert-ventilator, ie the fungal infection can be spread not only by bites, but also when people breathe their spores. Although the television show is in a very fabrication, Airborne mushrooms are not of course. The United States family now knows this better because of the majority, because 12 members fell ill after the bat cave in Costa Rica.

One paper Researchers published in the weekly report on Thursday and the weekly report described 12 approved or probable cases histoplasmosis: Fungi lung infection caused by inhalation Histoplasma capsulatum. In this mushroom soil, often live together with the drops of bird or bat, and the earth can be turned into air. Although symptoms are generally subtle, infection can make people with babies and immunocompromis sensitive to more serious diseases.

In December last year, Costa Ricaya toured 13 family members, the ancient cave system and Venado caves that colonized the venado caves with popular tourism. It was essentially meant to creep with a bat with poop for two hours. Whenever returning to the United States, everyone was sick, but a family member who did not walk the cave, but also in various degrees with symptoms, including muscle pain, muscle pain, night sweat, respiratory problems and gastrointestinal problems.

Five family members asked for medical care. Doctors tested four of them for fungal infections and two for histoplasms. The patients had both unusual chest X-rays, one of them increased concern for possible lung cancer. After information about the Spelunking expedition, health care providers have launched an investigation, informed the CDC. It should be noted that the cave they visited also probably caused the start of histoplasmosis in 1998 and 1999.

“Antigen test for all four patients, the opening of the first month in the first month, the Optimal Time Framework,” The team led by CDC researchers, wrote in the report. “But antigen detection sensitivity for antigen histoplasm is lower in patients with a light disease, negative test results can be negative.” In other words, if healthy patients are more difficult to discover histoplasmosis, family members who have been negative test can still be histoplasmosis.

As a result, doctors have confirmed that a family member has a histoplasmosis, and probably three members, and three suspected of this. Fortunately, none of them have become a zombie – or lung cancer and their recovery in 28 days. Doctors are generally antifungal medications for patients with severe histoplasmosis, in many cases in healthy individuals turn away self-contained.

Histoplasmosis is sometimes difficult to diagnose. Thus, the researchers ‘clinicians’ said, “Mushroom Diseases” for the diseases of the differential diagnosis of patients with constitutional or lung signs or symptoms after other measures related to the risk of histoplasmosis. ” The US Embassy in Costa Rica and Costa Rica hopes to see the risk of histoplasmosis, which includes CDC, Venado caves of tours of the CDC, Venado Caves.

Not surprisingly The last It is so popular. After all, Andrzej Sapkowski is the author Magician–write This “has a truth in every tale.” It is also true in a mushroom zombie apocalypse.